COME YOU SPIRITS THEATRE INCORPORATED

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Come you Spirits is a standing troupe of Actors with a Board and a repertoire of Plays

The Board

Board President - Mark Fulton
Vice President - Graeme Hodgkinson
Treasurer - Josephine Bloom
Board Member - Lucy East
Board Member - Dr Alys Daroy
Board Member - Tony Simpson
Secretary - Charles Mayer

The Troupe

Jo Bloom

In our repertoire Jo is our Lady Macbeth and A Witch, Cleopatra, Tybalt and the Nurse, Caliban, Helena, and Emilia, and has performed Shakespeare across the UK and Australia in castles, theatres, cathedrals and botanical gardens. She’s worked with the British Shakespeare Company, Australian Shakespeare Company, and has performed in every production by Come you Spirits, which she founded. Jo also works as an energy healer and plant medicine practitioner.

David Halgren

Banquo in Macbeth is played by David Halgren, a graduate of Actors’ Centre Australia, and who also plays Mercutio in Come you Spirits’ Romeo & Juliet. David has performed in The 39 Steps, Tartuffe, Glengarry Glen Ross, Romeo and Julien, The Seagull, Zoo Story, Measure for Measure, Hayfever, Evolution, and Much Ado About Nothing, and many screen roles. He has directed and produced Jean Genet’s The Maids with That Theatre Company, which he founded, and is based in Sydney.

Charles Mayer

In our repertoire, Charles is our Macbeth, Lord Capulet and the Friar, Antony, Demetrius-Oberon-Bottom, and Prospero. He is a graduate of London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama and a former infantry commander in the British Army. He has performed in many TV and film productions and on the West End stage, in Shanghai, and across Australia and New Zealand with State Theatre Company of South Australia and Pop-Up Globe, and is co-founder of Come you Spirits, performing with the other actors in all five productions.

Ella Havelka

A proud descendant of the Wiradjuri people, Ella is most known for being the first Aboriginal dancer to join The Australian Ballet. Raised in regional New South Wales, she graduated from The Australian Ballet School in 2007 and is an alumnus of Bangarra Dance Theatre. A multi-disciplinary artist, dancer, choreographer, weaver, and cultural consultant, Ella uses dance and cultural storytelling to empower future generations and advocate for social equity.

Ella holds a Master of Social Change Leadership from the University of Melbourne and is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity, with her leadership practice rooted in the belief that First Nations stories are powerful tools for healing and change. She is the Founding Director of The ELLA Foundation, which provides scholarships and mentorships to First Nations youth in dance. Ella is currently based on Cameraygal Country, where she balances her creative work with her newest role: mother to twins.

Ciarán O'Riordan

In our repertoire, Ciarán O'Riordan plays Macduff, Romeo, Lysander-Puck-Quince, and Ferdinand. Recent other credits include Waiting for Godot for ACA Company, Grain in The Blood for Virginia Plain Theatre at KXT, Mel Stanwyck in Chimerica (New Theatre), and original plays What Have You Done (Chippen St. Theatre) and Sydney The Folk Musical (Newcastle Fringe, Sydney Folk Festival). He has also devised and directed a pop-up production of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Past Shakespeare credits include Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor (New Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Acting Factory), Pericles in Pericles, Prince of Tyre (The Acting Factory), Ned Poins in Henry the Fourth Parts One and Two with Streamed Shakespeare, as well as Silvius in As You Like It and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night as part of ACA's Graduating Company of 2020.

Willa King

Willa King is a Witch in our Macbeth. With a career spanning over two decades, Willa has worked in film, theatre, cabaret, and voiceover, as an actor and singer. Since graduating from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art she has produced, written, and directed classic theatre and original works.

Primarily a character actor, she is a passionate performer of Shakespearean and Jacobean work. Characters include Lady Anne (Richard the Third), Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing), Goneril (King Lear) and Hippolita ('Tis Pity She's a Whore).

Not content with the blood-soaked tragedies of the Jacobean period, Willa also has strong comedic skills with previous roles including, Mme Boniface in Hotel Paradiso, Natalya Stepanova in Chekhov's one-act play The Proposal, and Olive in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple.

Charlotte Edwards

Charlotte plays Juliet in our Romeo & Juliet and Hermia-Snug-Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She grew up in Tasmania, where she discovered her love for performance through dance. From a young age, she knew she wanted to move to the mainland to attend acting school, and in 2023, she graduated from the Actors Centre Australia with a Bachelor's degree in Stage and Screen Acting.

While at ACA, Charlotte was Irina in Three Sisters, Natalie in The Business, Clarence and Prince Edward in Richard III, Nola in The Boys, Elena Popova in The Bear, Juror 7 in 12 Angry Men, and Sentry 2, Boy Young, and Chorus in Antigone.

Since graduating, Charlotte has played Boy in Waiting for Godot (ACA Wheelhouse), Fox/ Footman/Dance Captain in Cinderella (Strathfield Musical Society), and John Webster in Shakespeare in Love at the New Theatre. 

Letitia Hodgkinson

The Art Director of Come you Spirits Theatre is Letitia Hodgkinson, the creator of staging, costumes and overall aesthetic vision. She is an artist and lover of all things pre-loved, a champion of giving new life to goods that would otherwise end up in landfill. 

Nearly all props and costumes used across the repertoire are sourced from council recycling programmes or charity stores. When not developing art for Come you Spirits she is sourcing and creating “treasure” for her own vintage store, Ziggy & Skunk.

Adam Applebaum

Adam Applebaum is the Lighting Designer for Come you Spirits, shaping the visual rhythm of each performance through light, shadow, and atmosphere. Originally from England, Adam grew up in the world of touring theatre, lighting rock bands and music festivals alongside musicals and plays. His background in live music fuels his instinct for rhythm, mood, and emotional intensity, which he now channels into creating bold, responsive designs for site-specific performance with Come you Spirits his lighting is designed to create a feeling as much as a look.

Erica Dixon

Understudy for Third Witch is Erica Dixon, a proud Gomeroi woman from Bingara, Northern NSW. She recently graduated from NAISDA Dance College with an Advanced Diploma and completed a traineeship with The Australian Ballet’s Education and Outreach program in 2024. Erica has extensive experience teaching dance to First Nations youth and is passionate about using dance as a tool for cultural connection and empowerment. She is a founding member of Garwoeidhamin Mayan, a community cultural group dedicated to sharing stories through dance and movement.